Hawaii Catholic Herald

Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu

Father Kenneth Doyle: May someone with dementia receive Communion?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: My father is 86 years old and was raised in the Catholic Church. He was considered an intellectual and earned his Ph.D. in philosophy. He became a nonpracticing Catholic and in fact rejected the church, although he had a thirst for justice and continued to treasure the church’s teachings on human rights. […]

Greg Erlandson: What does persecution look like?

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AMID THE FRAY In Terry Gilliam’s 1985 dystopian film “Brazil,” there is a scene where diners at a restaurant casually continue eating their meals while a terrorist bomb explodes nearby, taking out another table of diners. The scene has often come back to me as I look at what our society increasingly accepts as normal. […]

Father Mario Palanca, military chaplain: The most powerful weapon

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VIRIDITAS: SOUL GREENING Interviewed by Sister Malia Dominica Wong, OP Hawaii Catholic Herald I am a devotee of our blessed Mother. I was born on the feast of Mary, Our Lady of Peace when it was celebrated on Jan. 24. Consequently, I had built a small chapel dedicated to the patronage of Our Lady of […]

Bill Dodds: Staying prepared for ‘grief pockets’

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YOUR FAMILY Looking back over the past four years, I can’t pinpoint when or where the scale tipped. When my days became more “not-grieving” than grieving. It wasn’t like the changing of the seasons, knowing that by May the harshness of January would be long gone. There was no predictability. No schedule. No deadline. There […]

Bishop Larry Silva: You can do miracles

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WITNESS TO JESUS This is the prepared text of Bishop Larry Silva’s homily for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, May 21, delivered at the Confirmation Masses at Holy Cross Church, Kalaheo; Immaculate Conception Church, Lihue; St. Raphael Church, Koloa; and St. Catherine Church, Kapaa. What miracles will you perform? You might ask, “Who, me?!” Yes, […]

Father John Catoir: Pentecost and you

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We celebrate the birthday of the church on Pentecost Sunday, 50 days after Easter. The Holy Spirit came upon the Apostles, and transformed them from the frightened men they had become after the crucifixion into the courageous Apostles of Jesus Christ, who fearlessly faced martyrdom. At every Confirmation ceremony, the bishop invokes the same Holy […]

Father Kenneth Doyle: Adoption by same-sex couples OK?

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QUESTION CORNER Q: I read recently in the Catholic press that representatives of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) had written a letter in support of the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act. That legislation would protect social service agencies who refuse, on religious grounds, to provide adoption services for same-sex couples. Does that […]

Elise Italiano: Keeping cradle Catholics in the church

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IN LIGHT OF FAITH In his book “The Four Loves,” C.S. Lewis writes, “The typical expression of opening friendship would be something like, ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one.’” I think this is the reason that a good number of my friends are Catholic converts. I have spent the better part […]